Of course there is an Alfred Hitchcock TV episode with a somewhat related plot. Anyone remember the one with Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre? SPOILERS FOLLOW.

Lorre eventually convinces McQueen to bet a finger against Lorre's car that he can't get his lighter to work ten times in a row. The police interrupt the bet, which is just as well. McQueen's lighter eventually fails, and the car isn't even Lorre's--it belongs to the three-fingered woman.

"Man from the South" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published in Collier's Magazine in 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre. This story is being narrated by an old Englishman, who tells of an elderly man named Carlos. And Carlos offers a boastful American young man his green Cadillac if the boy can strike his lighter ten times in a row. The catch is that if the lighter does not light ten times...